Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers .. (1905)
Swingle, C. F. [from old catalog], Horstmann, Henry Charles, 1858- [from old catalog], Tousley, Victor Hugo, 1875- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & co. · leaf 368
wer. Notwithstanding the fact that much has been said and written during the past four years regarding the steam turbine, the machine is to-day a mystery to thousands of engineers, not because they do not desire 356 THE STEAM TURBINE 357 information upon the subject, but because of a lack… … FIGURE 127. and forth by the static expansive force of the steam,while in the steam turbine not only the expansive forceis made to do work, but a still more important elementis utilized, viz., the kinetic energy or heat energylatent in the steam and which manifests itself in therapid vibratory…
